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1. Some "options" are off the table to civilized people.
2. It's not a particularly effective option anyway. Torture is a way to control people, not get actionable information from them. Its much closer to terrorism than it is to information gathering. Saddam knew this.
3. The situation I descried is one in a million, maybe less. It might make a good action movie, but you don't build policy around a cowboy fantasy. The likely uses of torture are much more mundane.
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